Beneath the Blood Moon with Barbara… Barbara and I just came back from sitting in our lawn chairs observing the Blood Moon, the second of the Tetrad phenomenon. The stars were above and behind us and the moon before us. So much came to mind…First I thought of Psalm 8:3,4: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Then I thought of our second date. We were in Chicago in the Adler Planetarium over four decades ago…dreaming of what life would be, if this relationship continued…what adventures God would have for us. Now here we were almost 41 years of marriage behind us, four kids and nine grandchildren later. And here we were under the same stars and moon that Abraham and Sarah traveled under searching for the city whose builder and Maker is God (Hebrews 11:10). The same stars that Daniel observed when he said, And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever (Daniel 12:3). We can only imagine what the beautiful starry nights were like as the wise men came looking for the young King of Kings and the bright star God used to illumine their journey. And to think this same luminary sky was very much the same sky that welcomed our Savior into this world. And finally before the sun came up, quietness settled over my wife and me as I thought about our children. We didnt say anything, we didnt have to…our conversation always gravitates to our kids when we are together and the conversation always, always morphs into prayer. This morning we were quiet as we prayed.- now wondering what the future will hold for our children and grandchildren. One verse that comes to mind in prayer for family is “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” (III John, verse 4). Yes, this morning I was thinking of Joel 2:31 and Acts 2:20 and the promised soon return of Jesus. Yet I kept coming back to the kids and that God would always be as real to them as He has been to us. Actually, we pray for a greater blessing on them. How can we look up without blessing the Lord who made all this? And how can we think about “all this” without focusing upon those we love beneath these stars and moon? And so today I pray for the blessing on our progeny and His Church. Without a doubt, it is man who is the object of God’s great love. So before we were sitting beneath His stars, He was above the stars looking back on us and loving us through His Holy Spirit and paying us a “wake-up” visit, “What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?” (Job 7:17,18). I am encouraged that our Heavenly Father who loves us as His children, should have compassion on ours…and His. Sun’s up, moon’s fallen beneath the western horizon. Now to work…and until Christ returns, I shall do what Psalm 113:3 commands: “From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised.”
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:49:59 +0000
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